The family of a 36-year-old woman who lost her legs in a crash on Long Island is speaking out after police say a drunk driver slammed into her.
The crash was reported Saturday just after 12:30 a.m. on the southbound Sagtikos State Parkway just south of exit S1E, town of Islip, Suffolk County.
A flurry of emotions poured out of the victim's mom, Roberta Vanderveer, outside the hospital Monday. "He took off his tie and he put a tourniquet around one of her legs and he took off his belt and he tourniquet her other leg, and another police officer tourniquet her arm, so she wouldn't bleed out," Vanderveer said.
Rosasdaqui was also taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. He was arrested and charged with Driving While Intoxicated.
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